Letter From America - The Proclaimers

When you go will you send back a letter from America?

Take a look up the railtrack from Miami to Canada.

Well

Broke ofF from my work the other day

I spent the evening thinking

About all the blood that flowed away.

Across the ocean to the second chance

I wonder how it go on when it reached the promised land.

When you go will send back a letter from America?

Take a look up the railtrack from Miami to Canada.

I’ve looked at the ocean

Tried hard to imagine

The way you felt the day you sailed

From Wester Ross to Nova Scotia.

We should have held you

We should have told you

But you know our sense of timing

We always wait too long.

When you go will you send back a letter from America?

Take a look up the railtrack from Miami to Canada.

Lochaber no morg

Sutherland no more

Lewis no more

Skye no more!

Lochaber no more

Sutherland no more

Lewis no more

Skye no more!

Lochaber no more

Sutherland no more

Lewis no more

Skye no more!

I wonder my blood

Will you ever return

To help us kick the life back to a dying mutual friend?

Do we not love her

I think we all tell you about

Do we have to roam the world to prove how much it hurts?

When you go will you send back a letter from America?

Take a look up the railtrack from Miami to Canada.

Bathgate no more

Linwood no more

Methil no more

Irvine no more.

Bathgate no more

Linwood no more

Methil no more

Irvine no more.

Bathgate no more

Linwood no more

Methil no more

Irvine no more.

Bathgate no more

Linwood no more

Methil no more

Lochaber no more.